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Re: CVS server upgrade?


From: David R. Chase
Subject: Re: CVS server upgrade?
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:17:49 -0500

Jim,

Just wondering what minor problems you had, just in case they might pertain
to other peoples' migration strategies (or my own someday)?

Thanks!
David R. Chase
Senior Unemployed Software Developer  ; )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim.Hyslop" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: CVS server upgrade?


> Courier [mailto:address@hidden wrote:
> > Here is I would like to do: I will take currently cvs server off line,
> > then tar the whole Repository, then bring up a new system and
> > cp and untar
> > Repository on new server. Our cvs server is a stand alone
> > server. All my
> > users are accessing via pserver. I don't have any problems
> > with username
> > and their password migrations, but just concerned about cvs
> > Repository.
> When we upgraded our server, we took a similar approach.
>
> We scheduled a dry-run of the process ahead of time, just to make sure
there
> were no problems and to work out any unforeseen problems. The dry run
proved
> very valuable, because there _were_ some minor things we had overlooked.
> This saved us the time (and embarassment) of cutting off our users from
the
> repository multiple times.
>
> In order to minimize the impact on the users, we took the original server
> off-line just long enough to create the tarball. As soon as the tar was
> complete, we restarted the server in read-only mode (create an empty
> CVSROOT/writers file to make the whole repository read-only). Thus, people
> could still check out and browse the repository, but they couldn't check
> anything in (and thus throw the two repositories out of sync).
>
> After we were satisfied the new server was up and running properly, we
> simply did a DNS switch on the server name (the name the users see is an
> alias to the actual machine name).
>
> --
> Jim Hyslop
> Senior Software Designer
> Leitch Technology International Inc. (<http://www.leitch.com/>)
> Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (<http://www.cuj.com/experts>)
>
>
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